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Busier retired than when working

Thanks everyone for the kind words

Just got the DD214 in the mail, can now finish the retirement paperwork. Took reading about a thousand pages of procedures for military record keeping at various policy dates to find out where my records should have been or alternate copy locations. Thank goodness for google and open source government documents. Wrote a letter to the alternate location headed by a very professional Brigadier General and got an official copy of a very old fuzzy microfilm but readable.

Will check back in when something interesting happens
Can you give me that address? I sent a request for a copy of my DD214 and it was returned "Address Unknown. No Forwarding Information"

Government is always messing with me.
 
Been doing other "stuff" for a while. Turned on the computer for first time in 3 weeks, feels familiar but kinda strange.
To get a DD214, the best place to start is with the national records center in St. Louis. If your service time, like mine, matches the "fire" list, they may not have your military records. I found out that the DD214 is typically copied or microfilmed, then stored at the base, fort, etc. where the soldier is discharged. Due to base closures, you need to ask DoD where records got transferred upon a base/fort decommission if your discharge location doesn't currently exist. You can find the records alternate location if by google search, but it will take days of sorting through policy and procedure documents.
 
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